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Show " WILL DISCHARGE Peseret Hews Predicts : a Slaughter. New Governor Will Play Havoc With Present Employees Em-ployees of State. v Savage Roast of State Statistician's Office and Praise of Adminis-I Adminis-I tration of Others. "When the Descrot News announced fn a two and a. quarter column article that there will bo n general cleaning up In tho Stato houso tho first oi the year, tho friends to Gov. Wells and Secretary of State Hammond naturally felt that tho News was taking a vary" cold-blooded way of gloating over their 111 luck. The News, the organ of tho church crowd, the staunch friend of John C. Cutler, must havo been given a squaro lip. It says, by way of Introduction, that: "Tho election a week from TucMlay means noi oniy tno winning out ot a party ticket, but It will mark a big point In tho political history of Utah, for it will result In tho lirst big upturning upturn-ing of tho Government since the State began Its existence eight years ago. "The patronage of the Governor has fallen In one channel only since State- hood come, and now its favors must fall on other heads. Thirty appointed Stato officials, who draw $25,500 por annum, will lose their positions tho coming year, and twenty-six now officials drop into tho positions thoy havo created cre-ated and built up from nothing. The change means that tho pioneers in Utah Statecraft have -reached tho end of their labors, and that the diggers of tho first dllchos must now bo content to seo their work pass into history ns the foundation on which future administrations must stand." To Be Summarily Bounced. Thus It will be seen that the appointees of tho Governor and tho Secrotary of State are to be summarily' bounced. Even though Gov. "Wells and Secrotary of State Hammond aro giving their time and their means to the success of the candidate for Governor, who permits it to be announced, before his election, that tho "Wells appointees and the appointees of tho Secrotary are to get it in the neck Just as soon as the new administration begins. 'the Indecency of the prcmaturo announcement an-nouncement of tho Intentions of the Cutler Cut-ler crowd will Impress ltsolf on every ono who will give II a thought. And the purpose pur-pose Is evon as apparent. Reed Smoot hates TIcbor M. "Wells ns much ns ho hates ony man in the church. Tho Governor and tho apostlo havo had more than one tilt, Smoot accuses the Governor of a conspiracy to dofcat him when ho was a candidate for tho Scna-torshlp. Scna-torshlp. Ho bases It on the fact that several of tho members of tho Legislature Legisla-ture would not voto for tho apostle, and voted for "Wells. Smoot also feels that the Governor has not been loyal to him In the Scnato Investigation In-vestigation He has so accused the Governor Gov-ernor directly and Indirectly. lie nominated John C. Cutler as an Indignity In-dignity to Hebcr M "Wells more than for any other reason, savo tho ono that ho wanted to be proved the political boss o tho Republican party In Utah. It was a dual bit of selfishness. Now he permits the apostle editor to announce that -as soon as tho law will permit it that the "Wells coterie of politicians poli-ticians will be given their walking papors. Tho Deserct News so announced it hi the nrtlclo from which The Tribune lins quoted. "Thirty appointed Slate officials who draw $20.o00 per annum will lose their positions po-sitions tho coming vear," says tho News. And yet theso samo officials wcro recently re-cently waited on and naked to contribute- to tho Smoot campaign fund! Here Is a list of ihe places tho News says will be changed: Pie Counter Line-TJp. Salary. Stale Engineer $3,000 Stale Coal Mine Inspector 2.000 Sccrctnrv State Board-of Health 2,00-1 Commissioner of Statistics 1.5M0 State Bank Examiner 1,000 Stato Chemist , 1,000 Stato Food and Dairy Commissioner 1,2CJ Secretary of tho Silk Commission.. POO Fish and Gamo Commissioner 1,00(1 Secretary of tho Stato Land Board.. 1.SO0 T'hreo members. State Land Board, each i 1,200 Four members. Board of Equallza- tfon. each - i& Car Tax Collector 300 Secretary State Board of Horticulture Horticul-ture j.. 1,000 Three members. State Board of Horticulture, Hor-ticulture, each AGO Slate Sheep Inspector 1,500 Adjutant-General, national guard of Utah W0 Eight members. Governor'o military staff, Tho Descrot News also tells some things about tho several departments. In the courso of this review it praises tho work of sovoral of the Incumbents, but It admlnlstors an unmerciful ronst to tho Stato Statistician. This office Is tho one that ia presided over by Charles Do loisy, one of Reed Smoot's "Fridays," a man who has truckled to tho apostle until his friends have thought that he Is too much of a servitor for lils own good. Then there is his assistant, the Irre-prcfcslblc Irre-prcfcslblc Fred Price. Fred bus repeated thousand times-tlu story Jhat had It ,ot hrn 3 ..been, tor him John C. Cutler Cut-ler could never have Oeeh nominated. Flayed Before the Public. Now poor De Molsy and Fled Prlcf are forced to Ifo Held bp- hi the cyej! of the public by the pr?iunl .champion of tlm men J.hay served, with such, slavish fidelity fidel-ity and' denominated Incompetent. ' Thb office, tho-"New5 sayn, will bf3 abolished! abol-ished! It say3"thftt "This much is car-tain car-tain Utah has no - statistics avallnhlo ns to her present' condition that are at all reliable!" bounds, but Is this not gelling a marlin pike rammed into .one's back at his own mow;? ' '.-'"' "What has Charles DeMoisy done that he should be singled out of the appointees of Gov, Wells and thus be held up to contempt? con-tempt? : Has Fred Price not contributed his time and his money,-ove n to the' peril of self-stultification? self-stultification? Fred was not for Cutler at heart. His friends know this. He supported sup-ported Cutler because his friend "Gawge" Sutherland thought that he would sail into tho Senate better In the wake of the Junior Senator than If he wore to support sup-port "Wells or Hammond. He subordinated his own choice to the Interests of his frl?nd, and now he Is pointed out as a failure as an official lie and his chief as the only failures of the administration! An Ugly Suggeatiou; Hern is what tho News said on the subject: "A department of the State which has not worked successfully and which will no doubt -bo- abolished by tho next Legislature, Is that of tho Commissioner of Statistics. Whether Commissioner De-Mobo' De-Mobo' ium .waucxly magnified hJ3 office, , or whether the law ia Inadequate, ia not known. But tills much Is certain Utah has no statistics available no to her present pres-ent condition tli.tt tire at all reliable. Other Oth-er States have n bureau of statistics that does the subordinate work now entrusted In Utah to local assessors and collectors without extra pay. Tho result Is lhat many of them do not do their work, and thus Utah Is left without such nccuruto knowledge of her growth as other Stales keep on record." The article In the Deserct News has been the object of much comment tho past three or four daj,s. It Is generally regarded re-garded as l!l-llmed, to say the least. It Is beiloved by some to have been printed us an assurance to tho workers that there will bo several good places open for the disposal of the Governor, but It Is also noted that tho News is of opinion that many piomlses aro now out. i ' Women's meetings In the interest of tho America.! party ticket are great successes. In the Third precinct, the big Mormon district, two meetings wore held yesterday, yester-day, at whlrh nearly ICO were present at Mrs. Ed Junney'sf and over fifty at Mrs. R. G. aienter'?. There were successful meetings also at Thomson's hall on Seventh Vesl, and at I J. Ansen's, K Second. a "Wouldn't II be n good Joke on tho 'big guns' if Cullor should bite the dust?" was tho comment of a voter. From reports coming to Snlt Lake there aro many independent Mormons who bcllove bc-llove Reed Smoot bus brought enough trouble to his church for a life time and they will help make the "Joko" a real thing. Nothing but church Influence can save Cutler. Just as church methods nominated him. , Friday night's Salt Lake Theater meeting meet-ing will be a "whopper." About every other voter says he is going to hear Senator Sen-ator Cannon's parting shot at the priesl-nood. priesl-nood. In order to provldo music for meetings that tho regular American party quurtetto cannot attend, a new quartette was organized or-ganized among tho employees at headquarters head-quarters and it Is a good one. too, and will do sonu good work during the closing clos-ing days of the campaign. Americans held a great rally at Mill Cicek Monday night. The friends to the new party In that part of tho county had been holding meetings at priyato honfeg. and tho Interest became so general that a demand was made for a rally. Several local speakers, tho quartette and drum .corps went down Monday night and had a meeting that was a winner. After tho meeting the friends to the American party feasted on pumpkin pie. cider and other good things as a treat of tho people of Mill Creek. "I shall voto the Republican ticket." said a well-known Salt Laker vesterdav, "but I feel that tho two weeklies employed em-ployed to boost tho ticket aro doing It harm every day. It Is no wonder tho American party leaders are pleased that thoy are assailed by those two sheets. Thoy aro and have been disreputable for years, and I believe tho abuso of good citizens by them helps the hew party and hanris us." . Another fine rally was held bv the American party at Murray last night, with Chairman Nye and county candl. dates for speakers. The opera-house was packed and thero was great enthusiasm. The fe?)lng In Murray Is that tho now party will poll a much larger voto thero than It was thought last week. 1 Tho savage and persistent attack of the Deseret News on the greatest Industry of Murray luis mado tho American partv many friends. In addition to thoso who early took sides with tho now movement. Judge O. W. Powers and James II. Moylo were doing an automobile speaking "stunt" In Salt Lako county yesterday. n i The New York Globe has asked The Tribune for an estimate of tho Presidential Presiden-tial voto In Utah. Reply was mado as follows: "Utah will cost about 100.000 votes. Roosevelt will get about 53.000. Porker about -13,000. and Dobs about -1000." Tho Democratic county committee claims to havo evidence of colonizing voters in several districts, tho work of tho Smootized Republican commlttco. under un-der tho direction of Anderson-Caillster-Eldredgo machinists. A canvass of th districts. It is reported, has been mado to check up with a former canvass, and tho voters who havo not obtained legal resldonce there will bo vigorously prosecuted. prose-cuted. Chairman Thomas of the Democratic county committee gives out a statement to the effect that thero will bo a CCO0 plurality plu-rality for the Democratic ticket. To reach this the Democratic ticket would be obliged to poll about 15.000 votes In Salt Lako county. This, In Itself, shown that tho claim of Chairman Thomas Is a bit of bluffing. About the only thing in Chairman Thomas's forecast Is the assertion that the so-called Republican ticket Is not likely like-ly lo poll to exceed SO0O votes. Politicians for a couple of weeks have been figuring It that tho fight Is between tho American party and the Democrats. And this Is to tho good of the American party, for the reason that tho upheaval that will defeat the Anderson-Calllstor-Eldredge machine ticket will not bo likely like-ly to favor tho Democrats, since taxpayers taxpay-ers know tho Democratic" candidates "would no more daro reform the county than the Republican machine would. o But a few over one-half of the election Judges for Salt Lako county have qualified. quali-fied. Some of these Smootltes protend lo deplore de-plore the idea that the American partv luis "stirred up tho old-time animosities," while such men as. Judge II. S. Tanner. Georgo Sutherland, Judge Botkln. BUI Glasmann and others aro dally pointing to the old record of Judge O. W. Powers as a Liberal. These Smootltes are a bunch ot political politi-cal monstrosities. Tho Commercial club has sent out a handsomo announcement to mcmbors, their ladles and families that tho election returns will be received at tho clubrooms Tuesday evening, tho national roturns to be had over prlvato Postal Telegraph wire. Th6ro will bo muslo and refreshments, refresh-ments, Ogdenlles will have a fine opportunity of hearing a discussion of tho principles of the Amorlcan party tonight. Senator Frank J Cannon and Judge Og-den Og-den Hllcs will speak at the Ogdcn opera-house, opera-house, Mrs. C. G. Plummcr will sing, and tho American Fife and' Drum corps will furnish music. The Smooller committee lias announced a "Republican rally at West Jordan meeting-house" for November 3. Bills aro out to this effect. Is It possible lhat this Is not by design? a The official ballot, a copy of the one which will be voted next Tuesday, appears ap-pears In this Imprcsslon-of The Tribune. It will be found of much Interest to the voters of Salt Lake county. a Clerk John James has shown a broad-mindedness broad-mindedness which has characterized Ills entire administration, by ordering tho official of-ficial ballot In the four Salt Lake newspapers news-papers of standing Tho Tribune, Herald, Telegram and Deseret News. According to the statement of Cour.lv Treasurc-i Carbls there Is on hands In the general fund at this lime but ilS,-'JIO.K). ilS,-'JIO.K). Tills Is not the entire cash on hand, for there ia J23S2 9.1 in th school fund, $130.70 in the State witness nnd Juror fund, $77S0.73 In the lax redemption fund, and $11,900 In tho Interest fund, a El and total of $12,301.90 Tho general fund Is not at a healthy .stage considering the bonds soon to fall due. i It Is believed that unless there Is ii.'trenchment of a vigorous character that the indebtedness cannot be met during the coming two years without a ralso In the levy. Joint building bonds soon fall due. Reglstor today. It Is the last chance. After 9 o'clock this ovenlng all persons .wlio have not registered will not do prr-irlltcd prr-irlltcd to vote an cIqc'Iah Aax. |